“I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed.”– Flannery O’Connor, 20 July 1955

This quote is from The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor. O’Connor died of lupus on Aug. 3, 1964, at the age of 39 in Baldwin County Hospital. She is buried in Milledgeville, Georgia at Memory Hill Cemetery. She completed more than two dozen short stories and two novels while living with lupus.